Choosing the best tools for a project is a core belief of mine given my background as an engineer. Some projects are better suited to small, efficient tools (such as Arduino), while others are suited...
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Trying to decide if it's worth replacing an Arduino with a Raspberry Pi? In this guide I share some of my experience of when you can substitute a Raspberry Pi for an Arduino, based on my previous...
How much it costs to run a Raspberry Pi (measurements and calculation included)
I wanted to know how much it costs to run my Raspberry Pi 4 if I left it running for a day, a week, a month, and even a year. To figure this out, I conducted over 30 measurements of how much power my...
A frozen program running on a Raspberry Pi is likely consuming memory, power, CPU time, screen space, and is likely getting in your way. If a program is frozen it's serving no purpose except to waste...
8 Clouds Raspberry Pi Can Connect To (costs, ease of use compared)
This guide compares cloud services that a Raspberry Pi can connect to based on how easy they are to setup, and how much they cost. Raspberry Pi can send sensor data to the cloud using a REST API...
Raspberry Pi: How to Send JSON Data to a REST API (in 4 steps)
While putting together a guide on how to connect Raspberry Pi to the cloud, I realised that it wasn't a straightforward guide for helping anyone send data from a Raspberry Pi to a REST API (as is...